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November 11, 2004

Bright Eyes grabs the top two positions in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles!?

— this is insane, especially for an indie artist #

Shaw Cable censoring Internet access

— they’re limiting the speeds of filesharing protocols and lying about it #

Alphabet of blog favicons

via Things Magazine #

Dragon optical illusion

— make sure to watch the video via feeds.feedburner.com #
November 10, 2004

Cream reunion in the works

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Microsoft launches Search beta

— the site should be live tomorrow #

l33tspeak on Jeopardy College Tournament

— just when you thought it couldn’t get geekier than a Blogs category #

Video: Leaked Fantastic Four trailer

— this movie will suck, badly #

Two new Pee-Wee Herman films in the works

— I’m hoping they’re more Big Adventure than Big Top via Jason Cosper #

New PCSX2 screenshots

— the best PS2 emulator now plays several games, albeit very slowly #

Video: Japanese McDonald's ad, with models dressed as Ronald McDonald

— there’s one for the ladies, too via Kottke #

Image: Wired's VoteStation mockup for e-voter receipts

— very clever via Boing Boing #

Downhill Battle's proposal for a secure filesharing plugin for GAIM

— their Blog Torrent project is getting closer, too via downhillbattle.org #

ICANN to make domain hijackings much simpler

— update: the Netcraft article is inaccurate via Kottke #

The only negative review of Halo 2

— out-of-context quotes from nine different glowing reviews via Slashdot #

Paul's daily links visualized

— I’d like to do some infoviz with my own link history and vias via Matt Haughey #

CiteULike

— a Del.icio.us-like bookmarking tool for academic papers via Alf Eaton #
November 9, 2004

Video: Mark Osborne's "More"

— astounding and moving Claymation short #

Nintendo DS hands-on review

— tons of screenshots, and a quirky thumb stylus via Simon Carless #

How to play flipbook videos on the iPod Photo

— it’s like a $600 digital Mutoscope! #

Google hosting the new Firefox 1.0 start page

— interesting move for Google #

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released

— the best consumer product out of the open-source movement #
November 8, 2004

Koders, a search engine for source code

— search the source of thousands of open-source projects via Philipp Lenssen #

Microsoft's Bedlam DL3 mailing list ordeal

— 15,000,000 internal “me too!” e-mails consumed 195GB in less than two days via Jeremy Zawodny #

Vintage snapshots from the '50s, '60s and early '70s

— from the always-good Imaginary World #

Strongbad E-Mail DVD

— the first 100 e-mails on three discs with lots of extras, buy it now via David Ely #

Imitating Flickr's annotations in DHTML

— very impressive via Delicious #

Google Answers on the economics of coffeehouse wifi

— plus, a good discussion of the free vs. fee debate #

DJ Riko's MP3 mashup mixes

— the longer mixes, like “Latter Day Taints,” are excellent #

Terrible "Six Feet Under" headlines

— headline writers have a pun field day #

Celebrity candids on Flickr

— nice recent shots of Peter Jackson #

Gmail snooping for illegal attachments?

— rumor: one user’s account cancelled for keygens and cracks in his inbox via @insidegoogle #

IMSmarter, free IM enhancement proxy

— I’ve been using the beta for months, very cool via Boing Boing #

Pricenoia, on-the-fly comparison of Amazon's global sites

— with real-time currency conversion and estimated shipping via kokogiak.com #

Adrian Tomine's New Yorker cover

— Seth’s cover was nice, too #
November 7, 2004

404 error in a textbook

— common Microsoft Word error slips into print via Ben Hammersley #

Movie: Jon Udell demonstratesvoice dictation software

— hypnotic demo of this software via Jeremy Zawodny #
November 6, 2004

Real-life landmarks in GTA San Andreas

— I wonder if they modeled my office building via Nelson Minar #

42 Entertainment

— the company behind ILoveBees finally revealed via Simon Carless #

Reuters overview of BitTorrent

— surprisingly, with links to legal torrent sites! yay! #

When web designers retaliate

— the site was originally designed by this guy #
November 5, 2004

10×10, hourly snapshot of 100 words and pictures from the current news

— well designed, by the Wordcount guy via idletype.com #

Half-Life 2 SDK released

— would someone please make a Disneyland mod for me? via IGN #

Our Traditional Non-Traditional Wedding

— Wired’s Steve Silberman on being a married gay man via Boing Boing #

Tivo adds show permalinks

— they coincidentally added it the same day George requested it #

Capture the Map

— a strategic game using the Google API via Eyebeam #

Furdlog on the MPAA's new anti-piracy campaign

— don’t miss their delusional glossary #

Obesity raising airline fuel costs

via Simon Carless #

Blendie, the scream-controlled blender

— also: ScreamBody, the wearable scream recorder via Engadget #

Cringely on TV2ME

— is there an open-source howto for doing this? #
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